This is the charity based system Americans love. It’s what they keep voting for. It must be great and totally freedomish!
DinosaurHoax on
It’s like when the news reports how a gofundme helped a 90 year old pay off dead wife’s medical bills and finally retire. Heartwarming.
NoReserve7293 on
Are there no work houses?
NaughtyTeaserr on
It’s wild how something meant to help can also show how much people are struggling. Feels heavy, not hopeful.
Virbillion on
All these day to day horrors will be forgotten in the history books. Years from now scholars will debate when the decline of the US started. My vote goes to the greed is good boomers who pulled up the ladders behind them in the 1980’s.
A couple months ago a woman called a black toddler the n word and raised nearly a million dollars claiming she was being canceled.
KneeDeepInThe-Hoopla on
So very sad! Firewood banks, food banks are not inspiring, but everyday people are. Meanwhile those in power are drowning in greed and excess, all the while patting each other on the back and deeming themselves good Christians.
JuniperJupiter4 on
r/orphancrushingmachine
mouthygoddess on
I can’t remember the last time I read such an exceptionally written article. Bravo to the author.
Back to wood. We, like many of our friends, heat with it—almost exclusively—for six+ months of hard Canadian winter.
Much of the wood we use gets collected after storms. People pull it off their property to the side of the road. Plus, there are (generous) help-yourself limits from national forests and Crown (government) land.
It’s encouraged to use all this dead wood for clean-up and forest fire prevention. I’m curious why it’s not similar in the US.
We *have* had to buy wood on occasion if our supply wasn’t dry enough yet. But with better planning, this should always be a reliable, low-cost—albeit high effort—energy source.
sagetraveler on
Well, the article doesn’t mention the politics of these places but it has a define Leopards Eating People’s Faces feel to it. “Rural communities absorb damage so others don’t have to think about it.” Who are these “others”? Our leadership, one would suppose.
DramaticWesley on
Never thought of it this way, but food banks aren’t inspiring either. The fact that we are one of the richest countries on the world, the grocery stores throw away countless amounts of food a day, and we still need food banks in order for a lot of people to just get by is incredibly sad.
Whornz4 on
Rural America is rural America’s worst enemy. Generally speaking, these people make things worse for themselves.
No-Personality1840 on
I am from a rural southwestern VA county and was very poor growing up and wood was our only source of heat. It is certainly warm but is a dirty, hard way to grow up and I wouldn’t wish it upon anyone. Some in my family burn wood but it’s a choice not a necessity. Wood banks, like food banks are signs of a country who does little for the poor. We are a third world country.
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Appropriate-Weird492 on
The premise of conservative USA social networks depends on charity—which means conservative USA politics is built on a failed state.
mechanicalcontrols on
For only a dollar a day you can help save orphans from the orphan crushing machine
Ignatiussancho1729 on
I’ve always said, charity is a failure of government. My wife thinks I just don’t care/understand. The one that does resonate a bit with her is military – why should former soldiers need fundraisers, or even 10% off a coffee when 13% of all federal spending goes on the military? It’s now getting close to a trillion dollars per year
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This is the charity based system Americans love. It’s what they keep voting for. It must be great and totally freedomish!
It’s like when the news reports how a gofundme helped a 90 year old pay off dead wife’s medical bills and finally retire. Heartwarming.
Are there no work houses?
It’s wild how something meant to help can also show how much people are struggling. Feels heavy, not hopeful.
All these day to day horrors will be forgotten in the history books. Years from now scholars will debate when the decline of the US started. My vote goes to the greed is good boomers who pulled up the ladders behind them in the 1980’s.
A couple months ago a woman called a black toddler the n word and raised nearly a million dollars claiming she was being canceled.
So very sad! Firewood banks, food banks are not inspiring, but everyday people are. Meanwhile those in power are drowning in greed and excess, all the while patting each other on the back and deeming themselves good Christians.
r/orphancrushingmachine
I can’t remember the last time I read such an exceptionally written article. Bravo to the author.
Back to wood. We, like many of our friends, heat with it—almost exclusively—for six+ months of hard Canadian winter.
Much of the wood we use gets collected after storms. People pull it off their property to the side of the road. Plus, there are (generous) help-yourself limits from national forests and Crown (government) land.
It’s encouraged to use all this dead wood for clean-up and forest fire prevention. I’m curious why it’s not similar in the US.
We *have* had to buy wood on occasion if our supply wasn’t dry enough yet. But with better planning, this should always be a reliable, low-cost—albeit high effort—energy source.
Well, the article doesn’t mention the politics of these places but it has a define Leopards Eating People’s Faces feel to it. “Rural communities absorb damage so others don’t have to think about it.” Who are these “others”? Our leadership, one would suppose.
Never thought of it this way, but food banks aren’t inspiring either. The fact that we are one of the richest countries on the world, the grocery stores throw away countless amounts of food a day, and we still need food banks in order for a lot of people to just get by is incredibly sad.
Rural America is rural America’s worst enemy. Generally speaking, these people make things worse for themselves.
I am from a rural southwestern VA county and was very poor growing up and wood was our only source of heat. It is certainly warm but is a dirty, hard way to grow up and I wouldn’t wish it upon anyone. Some in my family burn wood but it’s a choice not a necessity. Wood banks, like food banks are signs of a country who does little for the poor. We are a third world country.
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The premise of conservative USA social networks depends on charity—which means conservative USA politics is built on a failed state.
For only a dollar a day you can help save orphans from the orphan crushing machine
I’ve always said, charity is a failure of government. My wife thinks I just don’t care/understand. The one that does resonate a bit with her is military – why should former soldiers need fundraisers, or even 10% off a coffee when 13% of all federal spending goes on the military? It’s now getting close to a trillion dollars per year